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Manager Jose Mourinho

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Keeping Ledley involved is great, the club has not been great at keeping contact with past players that deserve it and can contribute. Bringing in Ryan Mason was good, Huddlestone and Vertonghen would be good as well.
 
Ciro said:
"When we are all ready, we can be a very strong team. When we have certain principles of play very automatic, we can have a very, very strong competitive base and we look forward to next season."

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We are on a roll.
We need to keep it going tomorrow and next season.
 
ILSpur said:
There's no doubt that he has continually performed for us over the years, but there is no doubt that his form has dropped off. But every player has a dip in form at some point, I'm not interested in selling just because he's going through one now.

There are two reasons why I'd go along with selling:

1. With the financial situations of so many clubs at the moment, 50 million will be a lot of money. Values are going to be depressed and that money could go a very long way.

2. I just don't know where Dele fits into our system now. His optimal position has always been more of a disruption type of player, getting into tight spots and creating opportunities out of chaos. We aren't playing that way right now, so knowing what we know about the system that Jose is running I don't know how he fits in.
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I suppose the flip side of all this financial uncertainty is whether a 50m sale would still look good in two or three years (independent of nonmonetary on-field quality). There may be depression of prices driven by panic for a couple of windows only - in which case, sellers are getting the short straw - or further depression over time as the transfer market cap sinks and the full impact is revealed after a lag period -- in which case, selling quickly is optimal and becomes increasingly less so thereafter.

Of course, this is all hypothetical because we're assuming that fans and/or the club seriously want to sell Dele and I'm not sure how true any of that is at the moment.
 
Joshking5 said:
The defensive improvement is clear as day and you can see that we have been working hard on creating “in transition” opportunities that we are extremely likely to score from, even more so than normal attacks. It’s why we are out performing our XG and winning games with limited possession. I believe we will continue to outperform our XG playing this way.
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We'll always outperform xG regardless of tactics while Kane and Son are taking the lion's share of the shots. Kane has never had a season in which he hasn't beaten expectation and they're two of the most clinical finishers in Europe. Outperforming xG over a large sample size is overwhelmingly down to how good your forward players are, rather than how they play.

Not to say that you don't make some good points throughout your long post though!
 
Ciro said:
I think Ledley King's appointment, if confirmed, would be about identity. João Sacramento is Mourinho's right hand man from a tactical point of view, and I doubt King would play a major role in changing how the team works. But he knows Tottenham, he knows the fans and the club's History.

King would add something very important to this group. It's easy in modern football to have a very good team with no real soul. We have a top manager in Mourinho. We have many international players. But if we want to build something special, we also need our original identity to play a part.

More like Liverpool and less like City.
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King also had that authority on the pitch that some of our players don’t have: he was a leader and - so - if you can’t have one on the pitch, you have another one off it.

Makes sense.
 
Baggio1988 said:
Or he took over a team destined for a relegation battle so to end up with europa is a massive achievement
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- Under Jose, we went from 14th to 6th
- We have our Europa League spot guaranteed regardless of the FA final
- We are six games unbeaten: 2D, 4W.
- We only got one defeat after the break
- 14 goals in 19 matches for Harry Kane under Jose Mourinho

Jose wasn´t celebrating a great performance or a great season. We were pragmatic and we got what we needed. Simple as that. Stop with the inferiority complex, show some support and remember where we were before him.
 
Ciro said:
- Under Jose, we went from 14th to 6th
- We have our Europa League spot guaranteed regardless of the FA final
- We are six games unbeaten: 2D, 4W.
- We only got one defeat after the break
- 14 goals in 19 matches for Harry Kane under Jose Mourinho

Jose wasn´t celebrating a great performance or a great season. We were pragmatic and we got what we needed. Simple as that. Stop with the inferiority complex, show some support and remember where we were before him.
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Can't support this dross mate.
 
Guido said:
LOL

Did you even hear his press confs when he rocked up?

He's failed what he was brought in to do.
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His points total since he came is fine, especially considering the injuries to Harry and Son.

If Kane doesn't get that hamstring injury then we would have finished 4th, I have absolutely no doubt about that. In the end, the terrible first 12 matches was just too big a handicap to overcome with the injuries we had.
 
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